The Sun. — London, England, 1810-06-16 00:00:00

OULf iii'• f lie Amu l(i~lr: ie = v.* [2,1,4.1 a 1 . 1; 1 :•' QW :fled yin 4 ,ffiry :s -roit %.,J j 7 0 ' ) cafe ~~~!~ Colli CO' of o lb° ~ ~yilwr 0,1 t..!' ‘" , il . jr,j'y -4, ..:& r • In th e compel that Spain and Portugal slicitild be gc: entletn ao had "" "P to the enemy a s neutral ginund. The Hon. 1 !..lic•.•d of the 'defence Of Cadiz, and a ked wheiher that was to be the spot on wkiClr „ fain„ was toy be defended.. He (:fir, C.) :Would a;;. linn wewere in a state to up any - spot of lground,-b •eause it inuQt. be a stop to Bhonaparte to :,drance his views upon this Countty. The Hon,. I"ttritleman had found many scenes of despondency; I lf h" vcis so blind-'as to imagine that ; 1 . Q uid not present themselves, or that a people Could ttie simu:t4oeously against their oppression, with all. r il e symtne..!iy, order r , and means ofregul,tr exeny rat" red with one general %ill, and acting gon,i j ut :li k e , The House - had been told a , ;e4l formerly about the regeneration of France; d si : i f it Was expelled th a t all on a sud:!en -Spain s hould he regenerated, and that there was nothing t( ) do. - • i .".When.these hands. had tornthe bands awaYi i : But b i d t he i ntant.g 6 t:port.and play." e would ask the Hon,. Gentlentab ; to, shew him a ~"Y Mon arc h y 'r R epu bll c w hi c h at.t he end of two ftars after its regeneration, could -cOndud its war 4r' at all— t h at cou ld pres e n t, he, would e pot say 1i : . lt.* me iris of 'conquest, but resistance of the sort that . 14: , had given: In affording assistance to Spain; t;„ c e % " , uld'inuch rather calCulate 'on the interest to derived to both countries than to look at it on the ana ' .i. --, . • . • ', - 0 1...gnerosity. Great Britain was the citadel i - which the enemy aimed. The outworks. must : e defended, and it . was as much for the interest ° s for the honour of this nation that we should fight ~,, ' l h Co : bi pe d ra th er than against confederated ti at iuns. N.lnch hail been said by the Hon. Gentle ,e i'' lll 'a i h respea to the Juntas: If any blame, was ' li t 'Pwahle to his Majesty's Government for not hay ; a "rthe outset e stpulated for a particular fhrin of i ' v 'rnirtent, he wished to take his full share of thata .'"le. Il e rt.ceived his information fi mu Mr.SteWart, • 1 , 11(1 ;t could not be expeaed that he was to be the o";neg)rist o f th e J un ta ; but when the dis p .atcht:s . Nlr. Stewart disclosed the names of such men as I.4orida Blanca. Inellanos, and Saavedra, as persons. 0 r llitig the gevernmenf, it ~va4 not for him to onjea; it I : 4 's sufficient that they composed Li Govetninent tv + - ssing the-contidence of the country. As to the II or ill-founded hopes,of a general rising of the ' t i eci lale, certady he was not justified in thinking that te whole- of Spain was roused, The Asturias and Ne North of Spain had completely risen: The Right l i V ll . Gentieman.then noticed varions'opinionS that ti, .gone forth, but in and oht;of : doorS, in . which ttral a e tst a e s rs t ' i t l i'e y re h c a l v ra e rg , d e o d n . e x t i t li l i ) s e iig ot t i o o - ur n a l b fi l t p ct G n e io n _- bi tc hy upon the people of Spain. When he leek , , s to the time of Charles V, and of . Philip,the V. h 0 had yesigned the Crown in favour of the next )i, sussession, and recollected that Ferdinand the 11 ' 1 . A as declared from every rornenin the kingdom 111 )e Sovereign ,of the People's choice,' was- it too ech to say that Ministers should not - have 4 41 ati hal said that they should not have uotilid • ' L i 'l 1 1:e .runta. What" would the lion. Gentleman 1 1 4 had them do '? Were they to have criticised tle_terthatton of the Government ? Was it for- the not Government snotpa Olt the Junta was bard the Cortes ? Was that the time to come for ' b s a rd when the enemy was intrenched behind the Cro .? Would- it have .been right to .have restricted 11,' army in P, e ugal, end not to have lengthened . , a ; l e ' e - alas, winch might eventually lead to the 'a,, v4 tioti of Spain ? He was firmly of opinion that if ?giations had.cotne fron the ports of Cadiz and 14 13 ' 411 1, those sAere . points which Government were 1 1 t Prer'ared to abandon. The Hon., Gentleman 'd all u d e d to S pan i s h A mer i ca :• if Spanish Ame ti(a was . desirable to this Country, the price of it I ''; European spirit. But the Hon. Gentleman re ' i -u .tlded him of the language of " Shylock," vilto, . l i . 4l enting the 10'53 of his daughter, but still having treasure uppermost .in his mind, exclaimed, Would she were dead, and my ducats in her a f113 7 " With respectto the cause-of Spain being `l)erate, he could not agree .with the Hon. . , elll l i c.' , m w a 1 . 1 ~ s bueicTafiusec,o_nitfent contended, e ed, lastno notwithstanding s i t n a i l t l y d i nsiglout the arri ve, 2i.. . oi,),,.,,,riT) h , e i)r t o n s u p s e t ti c . le u s , p h a ic ir h o t f he tlis country. Spain a w ed Much to that spirit of patience; endurance, . ,• ht,l4 long-suffering, that had carried her through so - ,""q struggles,. w hich still animated the people to i °lll inue the contest, and which ultimately blight _ t ee 'lre the most favourable results. : Looking at the : z ?erience of the past, he' would ask whether an :l'7 year like the last gained _to Europe was not. i i m ll trial ? • Was it -the proi)er•tirne for abandon flg a cause when the cries of millions were heard . . ' ooki . Ili , ' ug up to this country for ass:-.tance ? He never a.' ehtertain distrust of the pt , ople of Spain,, nor the N l ; Otest dotabts of the gates of Cadiz - being open-, ,:: to a British force when the time' of neceS-- fY arrited. That time did arrive, and a British' I, r e Was adrnhted. An HonOurable. Gentleman ' : 4 Said that ." the war had been cond,uaed with f i l"ity -which did not belong- to generous war r`•t ' What 1 . did - the Honourable Gentleman to. wau the generous -warfare of Buotiapare in Spain? 11. ' l ' that the sort' of charaaer he .wished to. give 1,,, clesolated traeks of that person? How many I . ,'" L ' cause tO mourn his progress. Was it then. to .a. - , endured that our army should be liable to such tl '; i.lipotatiori ? . He trusted the English arms' did am ' 1 . eugage in stich ta artare. He tad been ac iCsed because he exulted in the losses of 'the Nt , ; e 'ell in .Spain. He confessed that he , lool:ed t " admiration at 'the instauct: .. given of pa , t r i Pie veilg,?an, they- wee - topics of ccio• a ''') ll -to 11,nn—long might the struggle, continue, t ?ti ifs course tn.: . cleathful. Was' it eot consolation 2t - bY such alas of vengeance there was even one Ti t .. Irss to carry - liis scourge.itno other parts ?; ii i " . . , •," were some pet sons who looked with edrnira st'u.and• joy at what they called-the enemy's glory a t rd British calamities. The Right Hon. Gentleman that •itiverted. to America, and expressed his hopeS xi `it 'here would be no war with that country. He i e ,ver entertained the least doubt but if America was It 't alone she would see her true interest, and that ditferences between the two countries would at . - . 1 ;! v e at that point to which they- had ultimately ar k,,'el• : He congratulated, the country on the last v : 1 , of Congress: He professed to have perfeti good t) ! 11 towards Mr. .Erskine, but he moist' again assert, 'tit that Gentleman had disobeyed both ,the letter 4 t ,'''''' -the spirit of his instruetioos, and lowered the x e ''' 4 e of the country. He concluded, expressing his' tr ilti reconeurrence with the Vote (if Credit; 6441"......„ speech of the Right 6.. ,= eater. 2tihrried. that _the hopes which tie , . • would • held Out not be reanzed. In that Opinion he '‘`ir as fortified by the latest advices received froth Spain, which spewed that:there was no cordial co operation. There were two parlie's in Cadiz, And the anirnositieihet ween them )mete so grein; that the fortifications in the Isle of Leon were carrying on in consequence very 'Sluggishly, He could not agree With the Right .Hon. Gentleman; that the destrue-, Lion of the seven hundred Frenchmen in revenge was to b.? . vie wed in any other light than a horrible one. • Mr. WHITBREAD, in the course of explanation ohSeryed, that the atrocities imputed to Buonaparte Were not greater than had, been coinmi , tect by a Noble MarquiS in India. - Sir MettivCiii.i,Eity denied the charge of the Hon. - Gentleman. -The atrocities alluded to, were not committed under the eye of that Noble Marquis, for he was at a considerable distance. Mr. WHITIHiEAD CatltCtlduti that he was as much implicated as though preient, and was as liable to be charged With them as Buonaparte with atrocities in Spain, fur he was 'at Paris when those atrocities were atiing. After a few vhservations in explanation from Mr. Canning, the Bill was read a third time, passed, and ordered to the Lords. 'The Admiralty Courts Rea o ulatioU Bill was read .a third time. • 'The CHANCELLOR of, the EXCHEQUER. added a Clause for, regulating the Table of Fees in the Office of Registrar. .The Bill was the passed; 'The Salaries Accounts Bill was read a third time. - Mr. BANKES ,proposed several vet bal amendments, which were adoptel• He then wished to introduce a provision tOr preventitig persons retiring from of ; five, and having a suffieent income, from receiving -pensions. • _ . - This amendMent was opposed by Mr. WYNNE' and the clie%‘-NCELLOR of the EXOEIECLUER, as unjust iii its priticipe; .and was, negatived. The Bill was Olen passed. . • - Tne , Mutiny Bill was committed for Wednesday, on' which, day Mr. V 7 '.NNE intimated his intention of stating his views upoli the subject, and then of aliowiug the bill to stand oyei• till next sessions. 'Tvlr. BROUGI-1,61, in the absence at the Learned: Gentleman, (Sir 5, liornilly) Oostponed the third reading of the Canal Robbery Bill, until ttiis .nay throe months. On ih" motion Of the CHANCELLOR of- the . EX- . CHEQUER, an Address was voted to his4lajesty, praying that lie would be OsaseJ to :fikk-r t<> b,• laid heithe the House, specifications of the Skikiius and Livings of the poorer'Ciergy, Sce, The CHANCELLOR rat IoeE4CHEQUER moved, that . the House at its rising do adjourn tilt Wednes day ti - ext.—ordered. • , At Three o'Clook this morning -the House ad journed till Wednesday next. 1 TRIAL OF 111 : 8. WILLIAM COBBLI.F.' COURT OF`KING'S BENCH, JUNE is. This important case, in which the Liberty of the Press, that pall:!d 'um of British Freedom; is so detp , 7 ly involved, came on to be tried before G6 : flight Hon. Lord ELLENBOROUGH, at Westminster Hall, precisely at nine O'clock ye‘,:erday;, - The AT_roRNEY-GENERAL. opened the case on the behalf of the Crown. He . stated, that the - libel having been published so. long ago as July t sop, some reason would be expeeled fOr the cause having been so long delayed. Mr. Cobbetrlivitig at such a distance, and taking advantage of 'his just right of deferring his pleadings, the cause was brought for ward at the earliest period that the forms Of .the Court would admit. • Thteatened with invasion, it was thought proper that a certain portion of the po pulation of England should be trained to arms. In 1798, Lord Castlereagh brought in his Bill, by the . Local Militia 'might be cared out for 28 days, though they had only l)en .called out 20 days.— When the Cambridgeshire Militia was called out, some dissafieded persons in tne Isle of Ely caused them to Mutiny, and it was found necessary to call in the military in the neighbourhood, and five of the ringleaders were sentenced to receive 500 lashes, part only of which they received. The German Le gion- .who were thus c tiled itr is composed of body of brave vviro, when Hanover was - over-rnn, quilted their country, and entering into his Majesty's service, have ,conducted themselves with. bravery, and it was no disparagement to the army to say,- that the German Legion haVe shared the glory 'with them. At the tiattk oi T:tlavera the German Legion"took three standards. .No troops had ever cOndutted•thernseires in a more qui t, orderly, and tuber manner, and,he could not Mid that any coin- plaint had been made against them. Mr. Wardle, in a rnoti:;n in the House. of Coalitions, had pro posed to disband the Gerinart Lt-giOn, ag;i!;st wpich Mr. H.uskisson offered . sufficient rea , ..ils. A pat.a graph soon after appeared in the .Courier, which 11 . would read : " The Mutiny amongst the - Local Militia which brok'e out at Ely, was tbr.unately suppressed on Wednesday, by the ar -rival of four q uadruns of the German Legion Cavllty, from 13urv, under the command of General Auckland: the ringleaders were tried by a Court Niartial and sentevicedt; receive coo la'shes each, part of which puoisinnent tlit•y re-• eel ved •cL ednesday, arida part Was rernitted A - stoppage for : their knapsacks xvaslhe ground of complaint that e xc i te d • this mutinous spirit, which occi6ioned the - men to surround their officers, and demand shat they • deermd their arrears. first division df the German Legion -halted yesraday Ni i markek, nn their return to Bury." . Courier (ministerial) Newspaper Saturday, June 24 Cdoo . \\ r ith this-paragraph, -as a text to a Sennoii, had Mr. Cobbctt beaded his paper. • • . .TheATTOUNEY-GENERAL then read the alleged LOCAL MILITIN AND GERMAN LEGION. - " See tN:r motto, English reader! See the Anooo,'and then do pray recoiled all that has been said about the way in which Buonaparte raises his soldiers.',--Well done, Lord Cas tlereagh ! This is just what it was thought your plan would produce. Well s:lid,. Mr. Huskisson I It really \ not without reason thit you dwelt, with So mucheatnestnCss, upon ,the great utility of the foreign Troops, whom Mr. Wardle appeare4 to th , nk of no , utiiity at all. Poor Gentle- mai! he tittle imagined how a peat:genius in:glit find use- , „ tut eMployment tor such troops. He little imagined that. t hey'might be made the means of compelling Englishmen to submit to, that sort of discipline, which is . so conducive to the producing in them a disposition to detenct the country, at "the risk Of their lives.—het •Mr. Wardle look at my motto, and then say, whether the • Ger - - man Soleliers are of no use.—Five hundred lashes each _I - Aye, that is right Flog them ; flog them; itog them ! They deserve it, and a great deal more. They deserve a flog ging- at every meal, time. Lash them daily, lash then duly." What, shall the rascals dare to mud y, and that too when the German Legion -is so near at hand ! . Lash them, lash tlittn, lash them They deserve it. 0, yes ; ri.ey merit a double-tailed cat. Base dogs What, mutiny LI the sake of the 'nice of a knapsack I 'Lash them flua . them I r Base rastaisi iVntti'ny for the Price efh gnat's Ain and then., uptit: the tlin. , ,,rance of the Getinau valtilers, take a ticigging a 4 cptietly ~,.,so many ti ot trues do wits sort of alilace Ei. Li; but I really should like to kii,w lioWtfie inhabitants took ;r•tt one f wodier int he face, while this scene was' exhibitii:g iii tt eu town. I should ITlce to have been ,able to see their t.; , ...e5, and to' hear their observati..iis to each otiwr at the pc currence at 110111 Z, wtil, one would' hope, teaCn the ltyal . a little caution ipispealting of - the means which . Napoleon em ploys (or rather, which tney say , he '(niplOys) in eider to get together - and fo'. discipline his Conscripis. Tti' , .:re is scarcely any 'one of these loyal , .per - ,ons, wit, has not. at various times,..cited the hanii.cutiti gs, and' other means .4 force said lobe usod in drawing mn it the young me of 1. ranee: there is Scarcely one of the loyal, who has not cited these meairs.as proof, a complete proof, that the: peovie of 'France hate Napoleon and uis Government; as,i,4 with re lue.t.thce in his wars, and would fain see another I hope, I say, that the loyal will, itereattc:r, be cab tious in drawing such conclusions :.ow th.tt they ;see, Oat our' gallant defenders,' not oiriy-requ,ro physical leslraint, •in certain eases, but even a little biood drawn nom their backs, and that too, with the aA and assistance of 4.,ormatk troops. Yes, I hope tlieloyal be a little nvire upon their guard ID drawing COMA it:Ao,lls against .Napa teen's popu larity. At any rate, every- tune they etc - 4 in !Untie, burst out in execrations against the .1. tench lot sulk-ling themselves tie be cliained.togetlT - and toned, at the poo.l of the bay onet, to do military duty,' 1' shati just the pas sage, which I hale taken for a pipit , ' to the pi,..,eut I have heard Of some other pretty lit tit' tinti f ;s tit me. wirt ; but, I rattar choose - to take my instance (at-A.l a very complete one it is) from a public print, notorious.y under the sway of the Alitirltry." • - The Attorney-Generaihei'e .Nwtnt ins, a detailed exatifination of she libel in its various. parts., and in-, sisted it was ciearly meant to t.!a:fte the artily to i'e voit end resioance ; it was a. sther at th - pn for being subdued in thf. ix mutany - by Gelman troops, and he' entreated the Jury to observe -what alplicatioti was Made of the term 10ga1,"7 wherk Cubbett found occasion to use-ii-:- it was always uttered With a, sheer, and exhiFikedts a.terin of icitroaeli. With respect to trie indirect abuse which yeas atempled to be thrown on (host unfortunate it,re:.lrtets ...who had been received into. Our pay, he kit it a t.tuty to say something. on helialf .9( those Men wee het: fri,:nd less ancl'withont a ct,i - intry. They wit re inosfiy his Majesty's Hanoverian subjeMs, ,t-no preferred set v ing their natiVe and hereditary tiverel:gt.i than .to their eks- 101 c,,i? q uerur of their native laud. When- tht.it;couutry s: as subdued, they left it, a..d ..tt ere' rec , ived intd,tytr pay: 48-oictivrs,,thpii cotittui;7l had atways been ekt!to ) ,laty.'. At flume they hid,condneted • t•.crusAves ‘vt h Subordination and propriety, and .the Id Cii2y hathai w s dorte their . thity with imnour and . courage. - At the b,it!Lt of Tataiera, covered the thitish arms with glory, the German LegiOn took i s tuft ;hare of the dang,,er ;:nd of the .ito,.o.utr. at that d for out 'of the,hve sutudards 'three of iltem were taken by the Gettuart Legion.. - It was' th•erJire: a wicked attempt to nol,i out site: met - , as ottjets e,f I,nlijic hatred and delestAion, and it was but' a justice due to them - to defend their reputation when so attack ed. IXe trustO Me Jury v.ould look .through the bel catidour. and impartiality, and he is as sore the -result must be a conytinitm in their winds, that the . (l iendant"publi*ed 1:01 in 'the spirit' of fair discnsSion, but with the iialignant view.Of sowing distifieciion m the army, and to bring the Aciirti uistrtticnt'of the-country into ettruetupt. If they so thought, 'they must of mcessiy proLourice the de ien:l.tht The publication was admitted, and Mr. Cobbett acknowledged Ininselt the 11.11 - hor. • Mr.: C(1:4 ETT then addreSsihg the court, said, he should take up as little time as possible, doing to himself as much justice as he thought he deserved. Bvt the hard wordy accumulatt . d, and - thunde!ing acchsatiops that had been used, would not mislead the Jury. Sir William Hall,: Attorney, General in the* — titne , of William the Third, had said- , -." lit Spain the Inquisition`cihthel pershns'in sun Lenitos, that they might be rendered hideous by being thus dressed up." Be wished the ,'fury to put on his words'rro nerving but that which he -had, and . he trusted that they would acquit hhh. That the At toiney General was not infallible,. was sutEcient s ly proved by the chvge that lately .11-d been made against a person of the same prolest.on, who -wa,s even accused of wishing the Kin:} dead--but the Jury did not, by their verdict, slicw that they believed the Attorney General. - In the whole world there was not a Man who hati been more calumniated- than - , hiinself (Mr. Gobbet), and, in the pi-opagatton of that calumny, he certainly did believe' his, Majesty's Ministcrs to be. "im plicated. This: as a goes-thin of intention, and, if they ,could believe,_him guilty of. What was im puted to hint,. they - must thilik, him capable of any thing. Even in the very streets" he was calutn4 niated by placards. By otte Person who had a pen sion of two hundie,l pouhds per annum, and which Lord Sidmouth had struck off, was as serted at the 'foot of a caricature of a, rin, , st out ' rageous nature. (Here I\it'. Cobh - eft : read it.] On seeing this, in vs hicia it was - asserted, that he had, 1793, tece'R ed 40001. for 'circulating a Pamphlet 'against Reform —feelin4 himself thus cuarged, he had vt - r4tien to Lord Sidmouth; from whom l,e had received a most candid answer.— Lilere Mr. Cobbett rea 1 a letter • from Lord Sid mouth, chhtradiCting the taspersihnQMr. Cobbeit then adverted to a form'er prosecution in the Court of King's Bench, in which he had been-prosecuted for the publication of a written, by a .ItOgt. , , 0 IP.?wevcr; now etijos,ed a p , nsioh, and which, by the Literality Of. Mr. Perceval, Was increasrd 8001. per annum. He then adveried to a pro= secutioh ag:.inst ltitn fbr a libel in America:, on tie trial for it aaear, d, that the Sparnith MinisTer had contrived plot to poison, his Ma je::ty's trnips• in America. 'Having: ,suffered ih his forune in that cause so severely for his King and Couhtry, that very case had ht en ripped up, and.brought;agai'mt hitn on a fbrmer occasion by the Atiorney General. Mr. Cobtlett then confirm ed to read the calumny published aiainst hini in the caricature history of his life, air,' continued, by observing that, in ,his private life, he had fulfilled every duty*ithin hispower. It had happi.kned that Lord Craven, wanting to make a road',for the con veyance of caution in Hampshire, on inquiry .into the means of making it, every one said, go to Mr; Gobbett. Thus he wars not suspected of dis;oyalty, and had been engaged list Session in car rytng the Bitl for that purpose through both Houses of He worth! DOW eudeasour to refute the chat„ae that had been' speLifically brought against honn. The `cbiarl.:.e s as that 'he maliciously intended to ex 4e disaffec tion, &c. The information stated iiicil to cfrr that, being au ill-disposed setlitiousperson, and in hatre,d 1 , of his Majesty and hiS G o vernment—that is, that he LlIt.'4UL to do an injury to his country. But if zli4 c . ifr44 , ttey found him guilty, It. mlst. be on thc. pr icip that stick his intenti9n, 1 kei. , ,g,ez.i thtli - pat- , ticolar-attention tO this; fa; iii ti.e. Sisted . the whole of this-clse. iv r..Ccbbeit then att. . _ verted to tic Attoyney-General nt .opening, in which be was in error fiatthatitl ' itaci intig been ready to come lletere the Cotirt. Ore deoied, 'that he had avallel hiinscii ! ot any advantage to d , .-1:11,r the trial for one hour. &'; far from it; his iatewst renderM it: deiirable tb.it it s!_htild not be •deferred, fora persoti with a factli!y• children just old enough to be Elm-flied, and Witt: Wife. in a situ: lion • ihat increased his ernbarras,- .tnent and distress, cOuti . not •he supposed •19 hue any mot - To for evading jw , tice, The . A , -• torney-Generll .had dwc,lt on the . word " Fu} - a1;"' it trig t' hlve been supposed, 'that ,he had 160 much discretion to' make tise.ot that word as a term of reproach. [he July, if they I:att read hi 4 paper; most know it. Tice Attorney-General must know it. Were were peri , ons who had set up pr,2. ten ions to. exclusive - lovalty—such mei - ) for in. stance, as Mr. Liowks,_Mr. Hunt, arht Mr. hers, who, the rnoment th.it any measure of retrench- orient; was proposed, latinedf.tily open with - a Cry ('t Every one must know . his meatniq..-; to. be by that word an imnical application to those hy pocrites,..t. hoaffeCling loyalty are any thing Another set of called themselves Ki ng's frientlq, vi/Ito ev&ybody most know it to be his opinion that they.aKe . nOi the Ittog's friends. The Attorney 4...- .neral knew the whop-paragraph to be safirical, a (Ai. ticistrfon Lord Casflereagh's Bifl, the Mischief from whieh 110 hid ueen very tnrward in anticipating. pat 4 . _ oh ! says Lord,Casilereagh; you cannot mean me, 'you must meNI: the King—" :speaking t.f floEging,, it cannot mean toe." Why,liy,and by - if. the. Mi nisters poled in the street with. n.-,ud, should be told, the mud - teas 'thrown a: the -King; and . not at the .Minister.. Sir -William Blackstone says, the, proper nobjeals of criminal in• formation, are ,such . misdemeanors as endanger or disturb .the Govemnent, all 'other offences ought to go before that wofold shield of k'reedotu,a Grand Jury ; a nit ) demeanor of this nature too, says he, ought to be prosecuted immediiitely. Yet this staid a wholtS ~,( -7 f vetnonili, before- it Was brought be fire i Court of Justice. There was nothing in the pa per to _affront' the K'ng. If the information had said,..he had intended to attack Lord Caitlereao, he should admit tire fact. Tire Attorney-Gene- 4 ral had slid. on a former occasion, • that he did not meddle with writers for attacking , I~7inisters-r this was .a mere 4tt:ick. : opop Ministers, and every body Lii,w it.. The.,„foised construMiun words W3S obilinUls; was ridiculing the rnea i sure, and in sayino - " flog.—thein," he meant !..nothiog more thiu a 4dicule of .Lord Castk.' ref, is measure. . The use rmLle of Bnona. vute's treatment - of . Aoldiers, was to,- niake . the trealinent of the Local Militia a warniog to Mini.;ers to di2,iit from , that 1.11 , --`4lStKe.- Were 4 • we never to complain of, soldiers being ill trealety If we were to 'sto a s= l ier flogged to death, was no. !wive, no, to move in. his defence ?, ob. Jett . was' to cause the folly of the tneasure to J:ke done; away. A fellow frith a smock . frock sentenced to fi. e hundred lashes for mutiny ; _but :this was not. a mutiny'; a squabble allow a march. guinea: he -4,1,1 told Lord Ca'silereagh that by' that measure he bad just made these.rilen soldiers enough to dislike labour,, and yet not soldiers enough to cease to he Ja'aourers. Lie Would read 'what Lord Genviiie had said. Lord ELLEl , ispanuon intF,dered; he thought the reference to Parrkrrnetrt improper. Mr: •C01381., , TT euntinued—lt was said by' Mr. whitb r esti AA_ the tri.-atnient of soldiers in Duke of Cumberland's regiment was•ps' severe as ever, and even pickotting in hat regiment, altliongli the pradice s had. been discontinued in es ery otirer. Bt2t did Ivir. Whitbuad mean by that 'to bring his • Majesty and his Government into contempt? . Lille. ATTORNEY-GENgPAL here' interfered, and Lord ELLuNtior.touox said„V.at the allusion to .what had passed in,P,irliament had BO proper reference to , the Defendant's defence.] _ dostETT'resumed----The man who meant to . excite aisaffeaion in the army would not have' taken . .. such opert.aneasures as hid been 'imputed—He would hare proceeded mere secretly a!•d iusi~iiously :, !tel.+ cud suppose a cs,e," in which a nun should be - so wicked, or, so imprudent, as to publish an -ac 7 count kvhich might have a te,ndeney to produce in .calculable mischief. If, for instance, when our shores were threatened with the immediate presence of the enemy, and our fleet were going off to meet them, a man should say, in any public newspaper; that there was a - great deficiency, not only of coui foils, but even necess,ries, for the use of our fleet - ; that it wits deficient at every article that was requi , si.e. Such a publictnion might be presumed to have. been published with an evil intention, although, itt fact, no such intention might exist. Such a publi• cation he would read—[Here Mr.Cobbett . read a pa seg:aph froM a News, aper.] 'For this:paragraph - the kte.Attorney7Genend (Sir A. Pigott) had insii ttitcd a;:prosecutio:i,' however, present Att,U`n._•y-General bad abinloned. 'Yor this, he did not tocan to cast any Lettettion on the Xttorn,ey who, he was 'convinced, hid -dropped the prosecution,' trop; 'persuasion that there was 'no evil intention lit the wind of the writer. - In late prOsecution in that Court (against the MorniNg Chrohiete) the Attorney-General had said, that it wets not his practir.e to prosecute Men for warmth of. discussion or a(AtuadytisiOn on- the measures ,of ••Government, where is ably proceeded from indis cretion or inadvertency; li.had once been observed' by Lord Erskine in that COtirt, on a similar data , * sion, that there wrere many eases in which expres. , sons, iii themselves offensive and dangerous) might • •be used without having•any evil intention. if, for . instance, in coming d ma to that Hall, which was then occupied by the accnnunodatiOns for the trial of Mr. Hastings, be had expt essed his dissatisfaction at, before Stuffed into this hole in the wall,' (speaking of the Court of coalition Pleas)—if he had said, " Is' • there peter to be an end ()fans Hastings's trial 1 wish the roof might fail in an.: crush them altogether, and so nut an ei.d to it." This, in itself, would be • very oflensise, and very wicked -611 - the face of it, but without an evil intention could be proved, 'wortld not any' Member have been laughed at, wilt) should . move .for Lk expulsion from the House Coinmons - i Such was the observation of that Lelrned Lord. If every passage that is written :s to a: - mt, of such forced construe ions as had -~+ il "r; the )p o- A ilia. 1 ~ f;i~ Not Ott, ex- jd re ;:t it ~u.d es. l ° wtot Air" rrea I by I be :lalf to 1 E i 11;0 irule ibt , " [ld it Ott)'• cf , JL for t no 3 Ly • ti S• ;21 1- , n pr" rule - ) b [1 (.% -~_~~~ i 4 ~.;, i •. :;`~ G ••~+' l'" )(.0 t ,~iil ,f tilt% II Out ~~~~~. - ell, )• n 4le- I JO" 5C US t nep • „a tO